Ian Collinson - Freelance Writer
Born in Nottingham, Ian has lived and worked there for most of his life.
Experience in the print industry enabled him to set up Weathervane Press, a contemporary literary fiction publisher that launched five Nottingham writers in 2009-10.
Ian has now left the print industry to concentrate on Weathervane and working as a freelance writer.
Ian used his own first novel, I love Samuel Taylor, as a test drive for Weathervane Press, publishing it in April 2009. A romantic comedy set in Nottingham, it has the current economic climate as its backdrop.
In Ian's novel in progress, Find Amy, an Estate Agent unwittingly becomes an unlikely sleuth in the hunt for a missing girl. Read the opening chapters.
Ian writes and performs poetry, winning the Nottingham Poetry Society performance competition in 2008. His work has appeared in Fin Magazine, Living Poets Magazine, and the anthologies Poets in the Pink and The Cotgrave Collection.
Read a few here.
Ian has written reviews for Assent (formerly Poetry Nottingham), Living Poets Magazine and the online magazine Litter.
Read some of Ian's reviews.
Ian has written articles for Living Poets Magazine, Assent and Nottinghshire's County Lit, a selection of which can be found here.
If you are looking for a freelance writer, please contact Ian by email: